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My name is Florit, and I am a journalist and researcher✍️ I uncover untold stories about Israel, the Middle East, the Jewish diaspora, and Britain 🌍 I write with compassion 🧡
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Are we frogs in a boiling pot? (opens the original)
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Under my family photo from last Purim on Instagram, where my husband, our little son and I are dressed as pirates, a sickening message appeared. “I wonder how would you feel if your son is killed as many kids have been killed by Israel! I Hope karma hits you!,” a woman named Cristina wrote.Cristina displays her full name and photo on her Instagram profile. She is not hiding behind nicknames or watermelon graphics, and she is clearly not a bot. She looks like an overwhelmingly normal woman. But s
Zoë Garbett has much to learn from Haifa’s first Jewish mayor (opens the original)
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Hackney’s Green mayor, Zoë Garbett, has finally carried out her main campaign promise, as Hackney Council voted to end its 58-year twinning relationship with Haifa, a northern Israeli city well known for its diverse population, which has managed to sustain a brave reality of coexistence.As her campaign created rifts within Hackney Council and shook the local Jewish community, which remains one of Britain’s largest Jewish communities, Garbett could perhaps draw some useful lessons about leadershi
Mother whose son’s body was taken to Gaza by UNRWA worker says extra £23m UK funds for agency is ‘disappointing’ (opens the original)
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The bereaved mother of a victim of the October 7 attacks whose body was kidnapped to Gaza by an UNRWA social worker has described the UK government’s recent decision to provide a further £23 million in funding to the UN agency as “disappointing”.Ayelet Samerano, whose son Yonatan Samerano escaped the Nova festival before being shot by Hamas terrorists at Kibbutz Be’eri, urged the British government to review its decision, and said that
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